Serbia, sentence 529
From Wikipedia, «Serbia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
The six Serbian cultural traditions are inscribed on World Intangible Cultural Heritage list: slava (family patron saint veneration), kolo folk dance, traditional singing accompanied by the gusle, Zlakusa pottery, slivovitz-making and associated social practices, and the naïve painting practices of Kovačica.
What happens: inscribe, accompany, make, practice · To what, where: six Serbian cultural traditions, Cultural Heritage list, traditional singing, Kovačica
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Serbia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 traditions | det |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 traditions | nummod |
| 3 | Serbian | serbian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 traditions | amod |
| 4 | cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 traditions | amod |
| 5 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 inscribed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 inscribed | aux:pass |
| 7 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 list | case |
| 9 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 list | nsubj |
| 10 | Intangible | Intangible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 World | flat |
| 11 | Cultural | cultural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 list | amod |
| 12 | Heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 list | compound |
| 13 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inscribed | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 slava | punct |
| 15 | slava | slava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 list | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 patron | punct |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 patron | compound |
| 18 | patron | patron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slava | appos |
| 19 | saint | saint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 veneration | amod |
| 20 | veneration | veneration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 patron | conj |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 patron | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dance | punct |
| 23 | kolo | kolo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dance | compound |
| 24 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dance | compound |
| 25 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slava | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 singing | punct |
| 27 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 singing | amod |
| 28 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slava | conj |
| 29 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 singing | acl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 gusle | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gusle | det |
| 32 | gusle | gusle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 accompanied | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pottery | punct |
| 34 | Zlakusa | Zlakusa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 pottery | compound |
| 35 | pottery | pottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slava | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 making | punct |
| 37 | slivovitz | slivovitz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 making | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 slivovitz | punct |
| 39 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 slava | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 practices | cc |
| 41 | associated | associated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 practices | amod |
| 42 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 practices | amod |
| 43 | practices | practice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 making | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 practices | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 practices | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 practices | det |
| 47 | naïve | naïve | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 practices | amod |
| 48 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 practices | compound |
| 49 | practices | practice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 inscribed | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Kovačica | case |
| 51 | Kovačica | Kovačica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 practices | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 inscribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inscribe | present · passive | the six Serbian cultural traditions | Cultural Heritage list World and slava and kolo folk dance and traditional singing and Zlakusa pottery | the naïve painting practices of Kovačica obl | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on list=Destination | |||
| 2 | accompany | participle | traditional singing not said here | by the gusle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by gusle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | slivovitz compound; associated social practices conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | practice | Kovačica | nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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